Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Holloway, University of London

Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...

 and author of books on British intellectual and political history.

Career

Claeys gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

. From 1981 to 1987 he taught British and American studies at Universitaet Hannover (since then renamed "Leibniz University") in Hanover, Germany. Then he worked as Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

. Since 1990 he has been Professor at Royal Holloway, where his interests are the history of radicalism and socialism in 19th century Britain, utopianism 1700-2001, Social Darwinism and Eugenics and British intellectual history c. 1750 to the present.

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